Requires the office of minority health and health disparities prevention to conduct a study on the health impacts of COVID-19 on transgender and non-binary racial and ethnic minorities in New York state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7897
IN SENATE
January 3, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to require the office of minority health and health disparities
prevention to conduct a study on the health impacts of COVID-19 on
transgender and non-binary racial and ethnic minorities in New York
state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The office of minority health and health disparities
2 prevention shall conduct a study on the differential health impacts of
3 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on transgender and non-binary racial
4 and ethnic minorities in New York state. The purpose of the study shall
5 be to:
6 (a) identify COVID-19 statewide and regional rates of infection,
7 hospitalization, recovery and mortality rates for transgender and non-
8 binary racial and ethnic minorities and identify disparities in such
9 rates, and the potential medical, environmental, and system-related
10 factors that may have contributed to such disparities;
11 (b) review the extent to which disparities in COVID-19 infection,
12 hospitalization, recovery and mortality rates for transgender and non-
13 binary racial and ethnic minorities in any geographic area indicate the
14 need to increase access to health care services and availability of
15 disparity mitigation and prevention strategies in that area;
16 (c) identify ways to reduce or eliminate transgender and non-binary
17 racial and ethnic health care discrimination and disparities that
18 contributed to disparities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization,
19 recovery and mortality rates; and
20 (d) identify the extent to which COVID-19 regulations and/or
21 restrictions led to any disparities in health care treatment for trans-
22 gender and non-binary racial and ethnic minorities.
23 2. Within one year after the effective date of this act, the office of
24 minority health and disparities prevention shall prepare and submit to
25 the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the
26 assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the assembly a report containing the study's findings concerning the
2 rates of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, recovery and mortality for
3 transgender and non-binary racial and ethnic disparities in such rates
4 and recommendations for legislative or other actions that can be under-
5 taken to reduce or eliminate racial and ethnic disparities and increase
6 access to health care services and disparity mitigation and prevention
7 strategies in the state.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
